The Coming Colony: Practical Notes on Western Australia

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Page 16A very large proportion of this is heavy timber country. The jarrah, sometimes
erroneously called mahogany, a tree of the eucalyptus tribe, covers immense
tracts of land; its timber is extraordinarily durable, and as it resists the white ant
and the ...

Page 36A prominent feature of a great deal of the country is quantity and value of timber,
with the other flora so characteristic of West Australia. The smaller herbage in
some parts is not the most suitable for live stock, but in the more open lands and
...

Page 133Back from the river on the banks there is a formation of reddish friable loam,
gradually merging, as it extends into the plains, into a yellow clay and sandy grit;
the timber on the rivers and lowlands being flooded gum and wattle, on the
uplands ...